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Hadley Suter : The Maternal Instinct Vs. the Realities of Unwaged Labor

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic from The Motherhood Manifesto.The maternal instinct versusthe realities of unwaged labor I’ve been worried sick over the past nine months that I’m about to turn into a mommy-slave — and like it. By Hadley Suter | The Rag Blog … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : Culture and the Cuban Experience

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

The Cuban band Sierra Maestra was formed at the University of Havana in 1976.Economics, politics, and culture:The Cuban experience Culture can be revolutionary when it expresses pain, implies a better life, and extends the experiences of some to others… By … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Mob ‘n Maul

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Buddy Christ statue from the movie Dogma.MOB ‘N MAUL By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / December 30, 2010 We seem to be bombarded lately by “random acts of culture” both in the real world (if such a place … Continue reading →

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Houston Alternative Media : Telling It Like It Was

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Underground in H-Town. Art by Shelby Hohl / Museum of Printing History.Underground [history] in H-Town:Veteran journalists compare notesOn counterculture and alt media By Raj Mankad / May 24, 2010 [Raj Mankad is the editor of Cite magazine, the “architecture and … Continue reading →

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Liam Clancy : Putting the Irish in Folk

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

>Above, Liam Clancey. Below, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem:Irish music and the American folk scene By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 17, 2009 In the beginning it was William Clancy, … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss : ‘La Pensée Sauvage’

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss: dead at 100.Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss:Making sense of la pensée sauvage By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / November 4, 2009 In French sauvage means wild, not necessarily savage. In our language savage means aggressive, a … Continue reading →

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